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$400,000 Diamond & Crystal Champagne Glasses

Champagne is always considered a fairly luxurious drink (even when it's the cheap stuff) but any champagne, cheap or not, is sure to get a class upgrade when it gets served in one of these two glasses. Valued at $400,000 and blinged out with 1,700 white and pink diamonds the glasses were chiseled out of 8kg blocks of rock quartz crystal and it took 5 jewelers 3 months to put them all together.

The set was designed by John Calleija and although they'll be present at the opening of his second store in London they'll eventually be returning to the home of the Melbourne businessman who bought them and plans to turn them into family heirlooms.

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Zalto Wine Glasses

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

When choosing wine for week days, it is often easier to just grab glasses that are easier to clean and less breakable. Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg, writing for the Washington Post, encourage wine lovers to resolve to use better wineglasses for every day in 2008. They recommend the Zalto Denk'Art glassware from Austria. Like Riedel, Zalto creates glasses that are designed for specific types of wine. They also are dishwasher safe and resistant to clouding. The stemware isn't cheap, they sell for around $56 a glass, but if life is too short to drink bad wine, it is also too short to drink good wine from bad glasses.

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Riedel Grape Glasses

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor

Somewhere between the angular sculpture of a martini glass and the graceful curves of a wine glass you find this hybrid beauty, the Riedel Grape Martini glass. The glasses have pulled stems which form a cleft at the base of the curved bowl. They are made in Germany from 24% lead crystal. A pair of glasses sells for $70 and they are only available through Williams-Sonoma. They are the perfect thing to use when serving a martini made with grape-based vodka like Ciroc or Roth or Idol.

[via Daily Olive]

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Linear Platinum Stemware

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Wine

Interested in getting some new stemware for celebrations? The Linear Platinum Stemware from designer Kim Seybert is a lovely collection. Available in Champagne, Martini and Water/Wine Glasses, the glasses feature a frosted bloom that originates from the stems and spreads up the sides of each piece. All of the glasses are mouth-blown and have the pattern applied by hand. The champagne flutes in particular might just be perfect if you're thinking about starting the New Year with a new collection of glassware. Prices range from $36-$40 per glass.

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Dogon Stemware

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Filed under: Dining, Wine

The Dogon Stemware set might just tempt consumers away from sleekly curved, more mundane stemware. The pieces are very geometric, with sharp lines and crisp angles, though the lips of the glasses are still curved to facilitate drinking. Made of heavy 24% lead crystal, these are not glasses that you would want to use everyday, but they certainly provide a unique, fun look that would be a topic of conversation not only at a party, but for weeks afterward. The glasses (water, flutes and wine) are sold in sets of 6, are $275, the pitcher is $185 and the decanter, with stopper, is $169.